GROUND FOGS DAY

SEATTLE SUPER BOWL CHAMPS!

OBAMA O'REILLY PREGAME

Red Line?

Non-Sense:  It never was that clear a red line. 

Diplomatic Nuance and Change Theory ? 
Having read the "Non-Sense" links, there seems* intentional wiggle room**.

*note dates and actually read/redux
**revisited

[To read later. Actually red sooner.]

5-7-13:  THE LAST WORD?

Replacement Refs or Not...

If it were a debate* we would have stopped it. 
Not to pun on Xfinity, but while the Comcast links*** will expire.**,
it's the congress John!  Bring it on, Joe!  The President needs to hold a Sit Down.

Before I get down to the task of preserving<*> those links whether read or not, I will explain the Rogue John and Wax Leak of the asterisks.  Although the lesson learned from "Simon says"^^ might be to actually read links more thoroughly, the lesson from the Debate may be more complex but parallel of sorts.  By "rogue",<*> I mean that former Presidential Candidate McCain(first link) confesses an expectation for him lowering the expectations of Paul Ryan, while  disrespecting the Vice President and framing an expectation for gaffs.  Then in regard to the " ball of wax " that Palin leaks, it connects the "boys" to the other "race" speech.^^^  (There, that's the GPS-uncross-Rhodes.)

And a far as my Tan Gents(Dr. Trumps), being a Seahawk fan has nothing to do with my take on the moderator.  Well, who knows?  But Mr. Lerrer has been critcized for not moderating or having a good performance, but I think that given the style over substance versus substance with style, these are not legitimate debates.  And within the political system (such as it is) it was not his job to interfere with the players being themselves in order to let them make the proper contrast.  Again having only heard most of the debate on the radio, I thought that the President walked away with it, but that was under the condition that facts matter.  Neither he nor Lehrer could have done a better job in the case that they don't. 

BTW^: Speaking of "boys", we have heard cracks about the Harvard "professor" and I suspect he has had to deal with a few wise-guys or gulls[!]

*if the link were fact checked...ditto.
(McCain goes rogue.)(Palin leaks ball of wax .)
** not that I have read them yet or the recommend them.
***The point of this lede and the heading...

^ apologies to literary geeks for my style over elements.(But that was Core Knell.) 
^^ added in edit mode
^^^ to be expanded later(but see lede and stupid...I mean congress and John, Joe & Ryan. i.e. the context of the politics of "relief' legislation.)
[In the spirit of medium...? ]
[Not to parse too acutely, but it is the medium and the mess age.]
(Bu' dump 'ump [!] ... )
Re:Ouch?(see FLASHNOTE)
Post-Subjectivism?  Might it be, rational subjectivism?

<*> 10-7-12(See FLASHNOTE: under construction)
<*> 10-9-12  slight edit ( "r.... ",)

Total eclipse of the

gut?
FuN[?]

9-26-12
President Obama mentioned a time warp.
Clinton mentioned arithmatic.
Not to leave it on a try angle, but...
UN Speech,*** 
filed to read*.

The Cycle** was particularly good yesterday.

* more with the apology mitt-flop
** not exactly

 [***There is no violence that justifies mindless speech. The only thing to fear is understanding itself. To Romney they are not bumps in the road, but that is what they are when you aren't kicking a can down the road.]

[ SatIre of a Mockery: Simone Says (?)]

*** 9-27-12  Just to be clear, there are no quotation marks in the 1st  bracketed['s]  while the satire in the 2nd broke later.  I am putting a spin on President Obama's point about free speech verses[!]
"terror".  While Roger Simone puts a spin on "free speech" and the Romney/Ryan campaign.  Not to mention Dansing Bernstein. 

[!]= (sic) or pun on versus or verse us cycle.(OK... it evolved.)

FN(Footnotes) not (fn): from the top
FB: Turn Around Bright Eyes
(YouTube): unembedded from FB
(Bloomberg unembedded)
try: The Fed’s Best Rationale for QE3
angle: Be Smart, Not Just Tough, in the Middle East
but: did Obama stand up?(under construction)

Snooze Alarm

Something about Romney and...
(T M I)

These are not actually the stuff of dreams or my AM snoozing, but if President Obama were half as frightening as the right would have him, the left and the middle would be more content.***

[Not Exactly]

Dirty Harry and Fake My Day:  Rachel Maddow nails Romney on lastest ad that*...

...can't be put into words.   Maybe** a Mitt Sand Witch or Which.  Well... three words.  Frackin', fudgin', in-F-able!  Or goose the gander.  I will hold off on the links for now.  One word is waver, or "cul de sac" of politics.  Another is "running".  For what?(Or from...)  Romney wavers on wavers and shoots Romneyfair or care in the foot.  How high is the cow pie?  Or maybe the real word is "works". The right implication is that Romney and the Federal Government would dictate what works.  Could he trickle down any philosophy more?  The pour won per cent[!]

* link and continued sentence 8-8-12
**image/cartoons

***

[Up Date: Tetra Heed Run ? Or Try Angle ?]

 NOTE: Charts of Sorts.

To Be Arranged

(Re-modeling) Right Column:*
postings and other sources**
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For the time being I will leave item 2 "as is."
But to note ledes:
Primary Boogeyman
Pay Dirt / Tax Mud
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Table of Contents
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Making New Rounds
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There was nothing...
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The one thing?
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2-20-11 Under Construction
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The Answering Machine
Bridging the English Channel
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** see comment (1 below) regarding template upgrade
[template upgrade has evolved my need for change]

IT MAY HAVE NOW BECOME UNNECESSARY FOR ME TO INSERT PREVIOUS POST.***
THE BLOG ARCHIVE IS NOW WHERE I WAS GOING TO LOCATE ITEMS 1, 2 etc.
[This condition may evolve as I play with formats/templates.]
Labels label added.

*** apologies for anachronistic asterisks (No TrippleA [I. e!])
NFRY = not fully read yet: AKA not necessarily to be read soon.
Also not necessarily a valuable label, as it applies so frequently.
Today's Alex Wagner and Andrea Mitchell, especially the latter with Chris Matthews review a lot of the haggling of the Republican Race(slash debate), context and hyperbole.(see 1-17-12 scroll down here) Speaking of LBO[!] See AM and Leveraged Buy Outs and links lost(I thought I had embedded it somewhere today).(not to mention up tight[a,b,c] or out of sight asides.)(see lost here and found there, under fanciful economics, but not nfry.)[Meet the Press/FOXnews]
[Not pun/link TrippleA a D'Ribble: A ribble is a ribbing and a riddle. Not always labeled. First uses: Ribble, further parsing of first uses may be problematic. But here is a shot at D'Ribble and G'Ribble. A D'Ribble is a De-Ribble with few permutations, while a Grand Ribble may be close to an Obama Ribble which was probably an accident.]
[Not to go on and on, but related to the pre-bracketed regarding NFRY and AM(slash)race "the nation"...]
[Speaking of anachronisms (See Image/inserts)]

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

For the first time his memorial will be open on his day.
Today I am refraining from ledership or word play.
But nature or nurture, it is also a snow day.
Not to rhyme or reason*, but not a bad segue.

[Word play & links* are more Google than nature or nurture.]

* i.e. results** are more Google than intent
** links are NFRY***


[Now with Alex Wagner or earlier.]
[Andrea Mitchell documents]

*** 1-17-12 see Navigation/Labels
(NFRY to be explained.)
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I am having format/template issues, see Under Construction.(labels and scroll over or down)
Older Posts is a new feature.(1st uses noted in preceding links)]
I have been lax in following the Republican debates, not that they were worth anything till recently. It may now be different with the caucus and primaries begun. Ron Paul may have fanciful economics but the golden rule is key to our differences.]
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Brackets and the Debt Clock

[9-26-11 UPDATE: Tax Plan and "Fiscal Terrorism" A slight rearrangement and edit for clarity below. ]

[In might be easier if the links and asterisks are referenced later.***]

The whole issue of cuts over revenues * _ must be sorted out on two fronts. There is the issue of the so-called "progressive" tax code. Then there is the issue of the history of the tax code(see* pun), and how it impacts the debt clock.

The first regards the "Buffet Rule". There are the actual tax bracket rates(10% to 35%), and then there is the effective tax rate, which is further complicated(reduced) by captial gains tax rates(15%). Let us also be reminded that even the richest pay the same rates for their first brackets worth of income,(ZERO), let alone each bracket's worth of income. But since the capital gains tax is most of the income of the bulk of the rich, the effective tax rate will not be the actual sum of each bracket's worth. I will not bother to do some math here, but I hope it is clear. Basically the effective tax rate for the rich are not effective as "progressive" by a look at their brackets. They effectively get a lower tax rate, because capital gains are taxed less than the middle to top income brackets.

Second, there is the matter of the "Debt Clock", which should have its own brackets of sorts. The Bush wars, as well as his Medicare(fix), not to mention his tax cuts are off the clock so-to-speak. Not to mention the economic down turn which should probably reset the clock. If I was able to clarify the first issue, I don't mean to make up for it by complicating the second. But the "spending under borrowing" is more than a pun, it is an economic effect. For now I just mean to address the clock issue. Where I imagine that there could be some way to show previous administration's as well as the current administration's** debt clocks.

Now, I hope that I can get away with not providing more detail. But it is not so simple, as I almost closed the issue. It would not be simply an historical replay of their debt clocks, but a sorting of the debt from their budgets. So we would have several clocks at different brackets in time. This is the matter, where the devil is in the details. This almost becomes a matter for mathematical physicists in regard to the dynamics of budgets and time, in that each bracket in time has potential future impact where political economists would sit in for the mathematical physicists.

But, I hope that it can be imagined that each bracket in time, have two clocks. Their own budget and the debt that was not theirs. I will leave it for real economists or accountants to sort out whether there needs to be more than two, as I don't know if it is just my imagination, or the reality of the difficulty in sorting this out. In this regard, I mean the difficulty of sorting a budget's impact over time. But maybe it can be imagined from the effective impact that war and medicare can have on people and how dynamic that is over time, let alone the setting of tax rates. In fact, that is addressed by one or two instances alone. The Bush tax cuts were temporary. The Bush wars and the Medicare fix were not paid for.



[Please note that the links and image were inserted after completion of this blog post. They include, in order: The New York Times, FOX NEWS, No-Labels, and the Center for American Progress [9-26-11: OurFuture.org], where it was not my intent to lower the level of discourse nor bring more nuanced metaphor to light. But please note my No-Labels comment, in regard to the referees and what is on the table. Not to pun on a game buffet, but the neither the cuts sandwich nor the sand wedged in links were referenced for the writing of this post. But it may be suitable that brackets and clocks are used in games. This is a not so nuanced reference to the sports analogy of politics.]

*which alone needs some economic sorting: I mean "spending under borrowing", to pun a bit.
** oops, a whole new clock issue, why not bracket it by congresses?
*** not to mention by myself

[9-23-11 Update 'nuff s' Ed?] Iron Chef!

[9-29-11 update on timing, see comment 2. Speaking of timing,(darn) lost it for a moment.]